pyenv - Your active python version as reported by the first word of pyenv version. Note that the segment is not displayed if that word is system i.e. the segment is inactive if you are using system python.

anaconda

This segment shows your active anaconda environment. It relies on either the CONDA_ENV_PATH or the CONDA_PREFIX (depending on the conda version) environment variable to be set which happens when you properly source activate an environment.

Special configuration variables:

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_ANACONDA_LEFT_DELIMITER

"("

The left delimiter just before the environment name.

POWERLEVEL9K_ANACONDA_RIGHT_DELIMITER

")"

The right delimiter just after the environment name.

Additionally the following segment specific parameters can be used to customize it: POWERLEVEL9K_PYTHON_ICON, POWERLEVEL9K_ANACONDA_BACKGROUND, and POWERLEVEL9K_ANACONDA_FOREGROUND.

aws

If you would like to display the current AWS profile, add the aws segment to one of the prompts, and define AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE in your ~/.zshrc:

Variable

Default Value

Description

AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE

None

Your AWS profile name

background_jobs

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_BACKGROUND_JOBS_VERBOSE

true

If there is more than one background job, this segment will show the number of jobs. Set this to false to turn this feature off.

POWERLEVEL9K_BACKGROUND_JOBS_VERBOSE_ALWAYS

false

Always show the jobs count (even if it's zero).

battery

The default settings for this segment will display your current battery status (fails gracefully on systems without a battery). It is supported on both OSX and Linux (note that it requires acpi on Linux).

You can also change the battery icon automatically depending on the battery level. This will override the default battery icon. In order to do this, you need to define the POWERLEVEL9k_BATTERY_STAGES variable.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_STAGES

Unset

A string or array, which each index indicates a charge level.

Powerlevel9k will use each index of the string or array as a stage to indicate battery charge level, progressing from left to right. You can provide any number of stages. The setting below, for example, provides 8 stages for Powerlevel9k to use.

POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_STAGES="▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█"

If you require extra spacing after the icon, you will have to set it as an array, since spaces in the string will be used as one of the stages and you will get a missing icon. To do this, declare the variable as follows:

You can also change the background of the segment automatically depending on the battery level. This will override the following variables: POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_CHARGING, POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_CHARGED, POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_DISCONNECTED, and POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_LOW_COLOR. In order to do this, define a color array, from low to high, as shown below:

chruby

This segment shows the version of Ruby being used when using chruby to change your current Ruby stack.

It uses $RUBY_ENGINE and $RUBY_VERSION as set by chruby.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_CHRUBY_SHOW_ENGINE

true

Show the currently selected Ruby engine (e.g. ruby, jruby, rbx, etc)

POWERLEVEL9K_CHRUBY_SHOW_VERSION

true

Shows the currently selected engine's version (e.g. 2.5.1)

command_execution_time

Display the time the previous command took to execute if the time is above POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_THRESHOLD. The time is formatted to be "human readable", and so scales the units based on the length of execution time. If you want more precision, just set the POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_PRECISION field.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_THRESHOLD

3

Threshold above which to print this segment. Can be set to 0 to always print.

POWERLEVEL9K_COMMAND_EXECUTION_TIME_PRECISION

2

Number of digits to use in the fractional part of the time value.

custom_command

The custom_... segment allows you to turn the output of a custom command into a prompt segment. As an example, if you wanted to create a custom segment to display your WiFi signal strength, you might define a custom segment called custom_wifi_signal like this:

If you prefer, you can also define the function in your .zshrc rather than putting it in-line with the variable export, as shown above. Just don't forget to invoke your function from your segment! Example code that achieves the same result as the above:

You can define as many custom segments as you wish. If you think you have a segment that others would find useful, please consider upstreaming it to the main theme distribution so that everyone can use it!

context

The context segment (user@host string) is conditional. By default, it will only print if you are not your 'normal' user (including if you are root), or if you are SSH'd to a remote host. SUDO and REMOTE_SUDO states are also available to show whether the current user or remote user has superuser privileges.

To use this feature, make sure the context segment is enabled in your prompt elements (it is by default), and define a DEFAULT_USER in your ~/.zshrc.

You can customize the context segment. For example, you can make it to print the full hostname by setting

POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_TEMPLATE="%n@`hostname -f`"

You can set the POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_HOST_DEPTH variable to change how the hostname is displayed. See ZSH Manual for details. The default is set to %m which will show the hostname up to the first ‘.’ You can set it to %{N}m where N is an integer to show that many segments of system hostname. Setting N to a negative integer will show that many segments from the end of the hostname.

You can limit the output to a certain length by truncating long paths. Customizations available are:

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_ABSOLUTE

None

If set to true, will use absolute paths instead of home folder abbreviation ~

POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH

2

If your shorten strategy, below, is entire directories, this field determines how many directories to leave at the end. If your shorten strategy is by character count, this field determines how many characters to allow per directory string.

POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_STRATEGY

None

How the directory strings should be truncated. See the table below for more informations.

POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER

..

Delimiter to use in truncated strings. This can be any string you choose, including an empty string if you wish to have no delimiter.

Strategy Name

Description

Default

Truncate whole directories from left. How many is defined by POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH

truncate_absolute_chars

Truncates an absolute number of characters from the left such that the number of characters that your path displays (with or without POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER) is no more than POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH + the length of POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER

truncate_middle

Truncates the middle part of a folder. E.g. you are in a folder named ~/MySuperProjects/AwesomeFiles/BoringOffice, then it will truncated to ~/MyS..cts/Awe..les/BoringOffice, if POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=3 is also set (controls the amount of characters to be left).

truncate_from_right

Just leaves the beginning of a folder name untouched. E.g. your folders will be truncated like so: /ro../Pr../office. How many characters will be untouched is controlled by POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH.

truncate_absolute

Truncates everything exept the last few characters in the path. E.g. if you are in a folder named ~/Projects/powerlevel9k and you have set POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=3, you will get ..l9k.

truncate_to_last

Truncates everything before the last folder in the path.

truncate_to_first_and_last

Truncate middle directories from the path. How many directories will be untouched is controlled by POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH. E.g. if you are in a folder named ~/Projects/powerlevel9k and you have set POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=1, you will get ~/../powerlevel9k.

truncate_to_unique

Parse all parent path components and truncate them to the shortest unique length. If you copy & paste the result to a shell, after hitting TAB it should expand to the original path unambiguously.

truncate_with_package_name

Search for a package.json or composer.json and prints the name field to abbreviate the directory path. The precedence and/or files could be set by POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PACKAGE_FILES=(package.json composer.json). If you have jq installed, it will dramatically improve the speed of this strategy.

truncate_with_folder_marker

Search for a file that is specified by POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_FOLDER_MARKER and truncate everything before that (if found, otherwise stop on $HOME and ROOT).

For example, if you wanted the truncation behavior of the fish shell, which truncates /usr/share/plasma to /u/s/plasma, you would use the following:

In each case you have to specify the length you want to shorten the directory to. So in some cases POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH means characters, in others whole directories.

The truncate_with_package_name strategy gives your directory path relative to the root of your project. For example, if you have a project inside $HOME/projects/my-project with a package.json that looks like:

{
"name": "my-cool-project"
}

The path shown would be my-cool-project. If you navigate to $HOME/projects/my-project/src, then the path shown would be my-cool-project/src. Please note that this currently looks for .git directory to determine the root of the project.

You can also configure the dir segment to show when you are in a directory without write permissions, using the variable below.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_SHOW_WRITABLE

false

If set to true and you are in a directory that you do not have write permissions for, this segment will display a lock icon and enter the NOT_WRITABLE state (which can be customized per our usual process). Note that this functionality is also available in a separate segment, dir_writable.

If you want to customize the last directory of the path, you can now set POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_HIGHLIGHT_FOREGROUND to a custom color and/or POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_HIGHLIGHT_BOLD=true to display that part in bold.

You can also color the separator separately by setting the color using POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_PATH_SEPARATOR_FOREGROUND.

disk_usage

The disk_usage segment will show the usage level of the partition that your current working directory resides in. It can be configured with the following variables.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_DISK_USAGE_ONLY_WARNING

false

Hide the segment except when usage levels have hit warning or critical levels.

POWERLEVEL9K_DISK_USAGE_WARNING_LEVEL

90

The usage level that triggers a warning state.

POWERLEVEL9K_DISK_USAGE_CRITICAL_LEVEL

95

The usage level that triggers a critical state.

host

The host segment will print the hostname.

You can set the POWERLEVEL9K_HOST_TEMPLATE variable to change how the hostname is displayed. See (ZSH Manual)[http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Prompt-Expansion.html#Login-information] for details. The default is set to %m which will show the hostname up to the first .. You can set it to %{N}m where N is an integer to show that many segments of system hostname. Setting N to a negative integer will show that many segments from the end of the hostname.

POWERLEVEL9K_HOST_TEMPLATE="%2m"

By default, LOCAL hosts will show the host icon and remote hosts will show the SSH icon. You can override them by setting

POWERLEVEL9K_HOST_ICON="\uF109 "
POWERLEVEL9K_SSH_ICON="\uF489 "

ip

This segment tries to examine all currently used network interfaces and prints the first address it finds. In the case that this is not the right NIC, you can specify the correct network interface by setting:

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_IP_INTERFACE

None

The NIC for which you wish to display the IP address. Example: eth0.

vpn_ip

This segment tries to extract the VPN related IP addresses from nmcli, based on the NIC type:

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_VPN_IP_INTERFACE

tun

The VPN interface.

public_ip

This segment will display your public IP address. There are several methods of obtaining this information and by default it will try all of them starting with the most efficient. You can also specify which method you would like it to use. The methods available are dig using opendns, curl, or wget. The host used for wget and curl is http://ident.me by default but can be set to another host if you prefer.

If you activate a VPN, the icon for this segment will change to the defined VPN icon.

The public_ip segment will attempt to update your public IP address every 5 minutes by default(also configurable by the user). If you lose connection your cached IP address will be displayed until your timeout expires at which point every time your prompt is generated a new attempt will be made. Until an IP is successfully pulled the value of $POWERLEVEL9K_PUBLIC_IP_NONE will be displayed for this segment. If this value is empty(the default)and $POWERLEVEL9K_PUBLIC_IP_FILE is empty the segment will not be displayed.

load

Displays one of your load averages with appropriate state coloring. The thresholds are:

0.7 * NUM_CORES <: critical

0.5 * NUM_CORES <: warning

less: normal

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_LOAD_WHICH

5

Which average to show. Possible values: 1, 5 or 15

newline

Puts a newline in your prompt so you can continue using segments on the next line. This allows you to use segments on both lines, unlike POWERLEVEL9K_PROMPT_ON_NEWLINE, which simply separates segments from the prompt itself.

This only works on the left side. On the right side it does nothing.

nodeenv

Shows the currently used nodeenv. To avoid Nodeenvs activate command from interfering with Powerlevel9k, you should set NODE_VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1 in your ~/.zshrc.

rbenv

This segment shows the version of Ruby being used when using rbenv to change your current Ruby stack.

It figures out the version being used by taking the output of the rbenv version-name command.

If rbenv is not in $PATH, nothing will be shown.

By default, if the current local Ruby version is the same as the global Ruby version, nothing will be shown. See the configuration variable, below, to modify this behavior.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_RBENV_ALWAYS

'false'

Always show the rbenv segment, even if the local version matches the global.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_RBENV_PROMPT_ALWAYS_SHOW

false

Set to true if you wish to show the rbenv segment even if the current Ruby version is the same as the global Ruby version

pyenv

This segment shows the version of Python being used when using pyenv to change your current Python stack.

The PYENV_VERSION environment variable will be used if specified. Otherwise it figures out the version being used by taking the output of the pyenv version-name command.

If pyenv is not in $PATH, nothing will be shown.

If the current Python version is the same as the global Python version, nothing will be shown.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_PYENV_PROMPT_ALWAYS_SHOW

false

Set to true if you wish to show the pyenv segment even if the current Python version is the same as the global Python version

rspec_stats

status

This segment shows the return code of the last command.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_CROSS

false

Set to true if you wish not to show the error code when the last command returned an error and optionally hide this segment when the last command completed successfully by setting POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_OK to false.

POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_OK

true

Set to true if you wish to show this segment when the last command completed successfully, false to hide it.

POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_SHOW_PIPESTATUS

true

Set to true if you wish to show the exit status for all piped commands.

POWERLEVEL9K_STATUS_HIDE_SIGNAME

false

Set to true return the raw exit code (1-255). When set to false, values over 128 are shown as SIGNAME(-n) (e.g. KILL(-9))

ram

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_RAM_ELEMENTS

Both

Specify ram_free or swap_used to only show one or the other rather than both.

vcs symbols

The vcs segment uses various symbols to tell you the state of your repository. These symbols depend on your installed font and selected POWERLEVEL9K_MODE from the Installation section above.

Compatible

Powerline

Awesome Powerline

Explanation

↑4

↑4

4

Number of commits your repository is ahead of your remote branch

↓5

↓5

5

Number of commits your repository is behind of your remote branch

⍟3

⍟3

3

Number of stashes, here 3.

●

●

There are unstaged changes in your working copy

✚

✚

There are staged changes in your working copy

?

?

There are files in your working copy, that are unknown to your repository

→

→

The name of your branch differs from its tracking branch.

☿

☿

A mercurial bookmark is active.

@

Branch Icon

None

None

2c3705

The current commit hash. Here "2c3705"

None

None

Repository is a git repository

None

None

Repository is a Mercurial repository

vcs truncation

You can limit the branch name to a certain length by truncating long names. Customizations available are:

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_VCS_SHORTEN_LENGTH

None

This field determines how many characters to show.

POWERLEVEL9K_VCS_SHORTEN_MIN_LENGTH

None

This field determines minimum branch length. Branch name will be truncated if its length greater than this field.

POWERLEVEL9K_VCS_SHORTEN_STRATEGY

None

This field determines how branch name should be truncated. See the table below for more information.

POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DELIMITER

...

Delimiter to use in truncated strings. This can be any string you choose, including an empty string if you wish to have no delimiter.

Strategy Name

Description

truncate_middle

Truncates the middle part of a branch. E.g. branch name is 1234-super_super_long_branch_name, then it will truncated to 1234-..._name, if POWERLEVEL9K_VCS_SHORTEN_LENGTH=5 is also set (controls the amount of characters to be left).

truncate_from_right

Just leaves the beginning of a branch name untouched. E.g. branch name will be truncated like so: 1234-.... How many characters will be untouched is controlled by POWERLEVEL9K_VCS_SHORTEN_LENGTH.

For example, if you want to truncate 1234-super_super_long_branch_name to 1234-.. and don't do it with development:

vi_mode

This segment shows ZSH's current input mode. Note that this is only useful if you are using the ZSH Line Editor (VI mode). You can enable this either by .zshrc configuration or using a plugin, like Oh-My-Zsh's vi-mode plugin.

Variable

Default Value

Description

POWERLEVEL9K_VI_INSERT_MODE_STRING

"INSERT"

String to display while in 'Insert' mode.

POWERLEVEL9K_VI_COMMAND_MODE_STRING

"NORMAL"

String to display while in 'Command' mode.

To hide the segment entirely when in INSERT mode, set POWERLEVEL9K_VI_INSERT_MODE_STRING=''

virtualenv

This segment shows your Python VirtualEnv. To avoid VirtualEnvs activate command from interfering with Powerlevel9k, you should set VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1 in your ~/.zshrc.

Unit Test Ratios

The symfony2_tests and rspec_stats segments both show a ratio of "real" classes vs test classes in your source code. This is just a very simple ratio, and does not show your code coverage or any sophisticated stats. All this does is count your source files and test files, and calculate the ratio between them. Just enough to give you a quick overview about the test situation of the project you are dealing with.

Disabling / Enabling Powerlevel9k

You can disable P9k and return to a very basic prompt at any time simply by calling:

$ prompt_powerlevel9k_teardown

You can then re-enable it by calling:

$ prompt_powerlevel9k_setup

tl; dr

Want to just get a quick start? Check out the Show Off Your Config portion of the wiki to get going.